Fedora 38 update for python-django3

Published: 2024-04-11

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2024-27351 CVE-2023-41164
CWE-ID	CWE-1333 CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Fedora Operating systems & Components / Operating system python-django3 Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Inefficient regular expression complexity

EUVDB-ID: #VU87033

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27351

CWE-ID: CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions in django.utils.text.Truncator.words(). A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 38

python-django3: before 3.2.25-2.fc38

External links

http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-84fbbbb914

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU80395